Said Tayeb Jawad

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Said Tayeb Jawad
19th Afghanistan Ambassador to United States of America
Incumbent
Assumed office  December 4, 2003
President	Hamid Karzai
Preceded by	Isaq Sharhyar
Succeeded by	none
Born	Kandahar, Afghanistan
Spouse(s)	Shamim Jawad
Children	Iman Jawad
Profession	Academic and Diplomat
Religion	Muslim

Said Tayeb Jawad is the current Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States. He was appointed on December 4, 2003, by President Hamid Karzai. He also serves as Afghanistan’s non-resident Ambassador to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Public service 2.1 Return to Afghanistan 2.2 Ambassador to the U.S. 2.2.1 Media and Public Engagements 2.2.2 Awards and Honorary Degrees 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Said Tayeb Jawad was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan^[1] to a Shia family.^[2] He was educated at the Afghan French Lycée Istiklal, and at the School of Law and Political Sciences in Kabul University. He then travelled to Germany for more advanced studies at Westfaelische Wilhelms University in Muenster. In 1986 he settled in the United States, where he earned his MBA from the Golden Gate University in San Francisco and worked for a number of prominent law firms.

He is fluent in Pashto, Persian, English, German and French languages. He is married to Shamim Jawad, Founder and President of the Ayenda Foundation, an charitable organization that works on projects for women and children in Afghanistan. They have a twenty-year-old son, Iman, who is a student at Tufts University^[3] where he is enrolled in the EPIIC program.

[edit] Public service

[edit] Return to Afghanistan

Ambassador Jawad returned to Afghanistan four months after 9/11 to assist in the nation's rebuilding process. Between April 2002 and December 2003 he served as the President’s Press Secretary, Chief of Staff as well as the Director of the Office of International Relations at the Presidential Palace. Ambassador Jawad has worked closely with President Karzai in formulating strategies, implementing policies, building national institutions and prioritizing reforms in Afghanistan. He also worked with the U.S. and Afghanistan's military experts to help reform the Ministry of Defense and rebuild the Afghan National Army. Ambassador Jawad was instrumental in drafting Afghanistan’s foreign investment laws; he served as President Karzai’s principal liaison with the constitutional commission throughout the drafting of the Constitution of Afghanistan. On December 4, 2003, he resumed his official duty as Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States.

[edit] Ambassador to the U.S.

On December 4, 2003, he assumed his official duties as Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States and non-resident ambassador to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, making him Afghanistan's 19th top representative to the U.S. since diplomatic relations were established between the two countries in 1934.^[4]

As part of his role as Afghanistan's envoy to the U.S., Ambassador Jawad has worked closely with two presidential administrations on U.S. strategy towards Afghanistan; developed close links to members of the U.S. Congress; hosted numerous visits of high-level ministers and President Karzai; appeared in newspaper, magazine, radio and television interviews; spoken before audiences at universities, think tanks, charitable organizations and community groups; and received awards and commendations for his work for Afghanistan.

[edit] Media and Public Engagements

Ambassador Jawad has also been active in his role as writer, addressing in his articles and commentaries the full gamut of issues relating to Afghanistan's condition both at home and abroad. His op-eds and interviews have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, the International Herald Tribune, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and Ambassador's Review. Furthermore, Ambassador Jawad frequently appeared in major international media outlets such as NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, Bloomberg's "Night Talk" with Mike Schneider, as well as CBS, C-SPAN, BBC, Voice of America, and Al Jazeera.

As a seasoned speaker and lecturer, Ambassador Jawad has been invited to speak at many academic institutions, among them Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Kansas State University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as the National Defense Intelligence College and National Defense University. Outside of academia, he is also a frequent speaker at numerous think tanks and policy centers, including the Brookings Institute, the United States Institute of Peace, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Center for American Progress, American Enterprise Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Asia Society and the World Affairs Council in over 21 states.

[edit] Awards and Honorary Degrees

Awards and honorary degrees granted to Ambassador Jawad include the Constitutional Loya Jirga Service, Medal, Government of Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2003; Global Citizen Award, Roots of Peace, Washington, D.C., 2008; Honorary Doctorate Degree in Organization Leadership, Argosy University, Washington, D.C. 2007; and the Award of Merit for Rebuilding a Nation, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, D.C, 2007.

[edit] See also

• Diplomatic missions of Afghanistan
• United States-Afghanistan relations
• Politics of Afghanistan

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C. (Official website)
• Ambassador Jawad(Personal website)
• The Washington Diplomat - Said Tayeb Jawad's bio
• Interviews with U.S. Media

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Isaq Sharhyar	Ambassador of Afghanistan to U.S.A	Succeeded by present